That's Not My Bear

by Fiona Watt

Book Overview

This delightful series of board books is aimed at very young children. The bright pictures, with their patches of different textures, are designed to develop sensory and language awareness. Babies and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074605159X
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Usborne
• Length: 12 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.4" x 0.7" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Grandson loves these books

That's not my bear. That's the theme of this book and the other books in this series follow the same type of response. Each 2 page spread of this book explains why the bear featured on the page cannot be "my bear" and provides the reader the opportunity to have a textual feeling to attach to that explanation. An example: "That's not my bear. It's tongue is too scratchy." Now, the reader can feel the bear's tongue where it is bumpy and scratchy. Each 2-page spread is different highlighing a different part on the bear until you get to the last couple pages and then, surprise! guess who is there? I like that these books are bright and the illustrations are friendly and large. The text is large, simple, yet it gives your little one the opportunity to learn some great words and where things are located (scratchy, fuzzy, fluffy, shiny, squishy, soft, tongue , paws, nose, ears, claws, body, and paws). There is also a mouse on each of the 2-page spreads and children like to find him. I highly recommend this series.

Love this book

We bought this for our daughter for Christmas. She loves the Usbourne books and especially loves to point to the mouse on each page.

love this book

My daughter (who is now 13 mos) LOVES this book. She figured out really early where to find the different textures which made her feel very smart. The illustrations are cute and it doesn't get old quickly like most of her other board books!

Uno de los favoritos de mi hijo

Tenemos unos diez de los "Este no es mi..." libros, y a mi hijo le gustan casi todos, pero este es uno de sus favoritos. Si Ud no conoce todavia estas historias, son mas o menos 6 paginas, y en cada pagina dice "este no es mi ... " y entonces la razon por la cual sabemos que no es el ... correcto. Son cortos, las materials (los papeles) son duros, las texturas para tocar son interesantes, y las traducciones no son malas tampoco. Le recomiendo todos los libros "este no es mi...".

That's my bear!

We received this book almost before my DD was born. My daughter loved it right away for the big, bright drawings with high-contrast colors. Then she loved reaching out to touch and pat the feely areas. Now she is 20 months-old and has rediscovered this and the other 2 we have (That's not my Puppy, and That's not my Dinosaur). She likes to find the mouse on every page (who I named Fiona, after the author). We are now working on colors, too. My nit-picky complaint about this book and most of the ones in the series is that "my animal" ends up being male just about every time! All through the book, the animals are neutered, i.e., "That's not my bear. Its nose is too rough." But on the final page, it's all "That's my bear! His ears are so fluffy." In a vain attempt to inject some gender equity into my daughter's life, I always read the books as if all the animals are female. I'm sure most of you are shaking your heads and making "posh" noises, but books with an all male cast bothered me from an early age. Finally, there are a lot of the same sort of bear in this book - mostly brown bears and pandas. No koalas! No grizzlies! No bears with teeth that are too big! Oh well. We love this book anyway.

That IS my book

We received this as a gift for my son when he was born. This was the first book that he really could sit still for, touching the "fuzzy", "fluffy", "shiny" element on each page. Even before the classic Pat the Bunny, our boy was patting the bears.The pictures are very clean and simple, each page is a different bright color, and despite the seeming lack of detail, there is a fair amount of amusement with the little mouse popping up in each page.My one complaint? The panda bear appears twice!